Elise Armani Awarded 2024 Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art
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Elise Armani Awarded 2024 Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art Awards
Support Early-Career Scholars of American Art with Fellowships for Doctoral Research
and Writing Stony Brook University is proud to announce that Elise Armani has been
awarded a 2024 Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art. The program is made
possible by a major grant from the Henry Luce Foundation and administered by the American
Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). Armani is one of seven exceptional doctoral candidates
awarded for their promising research in object- and image-based American art history.
The Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art Program supports early-career
scholars as they pursue dissertations that advance scholarship on the history of the
visual arts of the United States, including all facets of Native American art, with
a particular focus on elevating voices, perspectives, and subjects that have been
historically underrepresented in the academy. Armani’s research explores a network
of (im)migrant artists on the Lower East Side (LES) of Manhattan, using the local
as a frame for understanding artistic production as embedded in the cultural, social,
and spatial intimacies of urban geography and migration. The 2024 Luce/ACLS Dissertation
Fellows in American Art join a community of over 300 past awardees, including some
of the country's most distinguished college and university faculty, museum professionals,
and leaders in the cultural sector.